Short story collection Manusia Tanpa Kelamin (People Without Genitals) puts forth contemporary issues through a fictional lens.

When Jakarta was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, child literacy became a major concern, as young students lost the opportunity to learn alongside peers and were made to rely on digital devices for their education.

Top-selling French author Michel Houellebecq returns to the subject of politics and power in his highly anticipated eighth novel, which is to appear in French bookshops next week.

What does your reading list look like going into the third year (yes, really) of the extremely prolonged pandemic? Here are five titles from 2021 that you might want to include.

"Not only is it the most expensive Harry Potter book ever sold, it’s the most expensive commercially published 20th-century work of fiction ever sold," Heritage Auctions Executive Vice President Joe Maddalena said in a statement.

With his debut novel Yang Tak Kunjung Usai, Awi Chin gives Chinese-Indonesians some overdue representation in literature.

Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith has died in South Africa aged 88, his publisher announced Saturday.

Some people have a habit of picking up books they will never read. It hasn’t stopped them from piling up their collection.

Debut novelist Kyla Zhao talks about writing a book during the pandemic, Asian representation in the literary world and the pressure of expectations.

The Taliban have not yet ordered bookshops shut nor imposed censorship, but a climate of tension prevails and an economic crisis has hit takings.

Best known for his iconic series Balada Si Roy (The Ballad of Roy), popular among teenagers in the late 1980s and early nineties, Indonesian author Gol A Gong is releasing his memoir.

Gurnah, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but came to England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s, was honoured "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents," the Swedish Academy said.

Martial arts comic books were once a cultural phenomenon in Indonesia, now a collective of young artists is trying to revive the genre by putting a new spin on it.

A new book lets prisoners and ex-inmates share their writing skills and stories.

At the "Human Library", you can "loan" a person to tell you their life story, an original concept born in Denmark that is designed to challenge prejudice.

Twin artists Jessica and Jacinta Wibowo believe that exploring sexual and gender identities is something Indonesians should freely do, and is what their comic, Lunar Boy, is all about.

Never mind eased lockdowns or not. Here are five nonmainstream literary legends and stars for those bold enough to dive into.

Burning Tintin books deemed offensive to indigenous peoples? The 2019 book burning at a group of schools in Canada, only revealed this week, has sparked controversy amid an election campaign.

The leader of K-pop sensation BTS has turned an out-of-print book into a bestseller in South Korea in just days, as fans flocked to get a copy after he was seen reading it.

Indonesian indie publishers reignite excitement in books through unique designs and presentation.

A new photobook documents the band as they tour Southeast Asia in all its ragged glory

Writer Eka Kurniawan’s Sumur is a gripping novella filled with forbidding allegories about climate change and its effects on humanity’s relationship with itself and its surroundings.

"If you're curious about Tesla, SpaceX & my general goings on, @WalterIsaacson is writing a biography," Musk tweeted late on Wednesday.

The online sale of 55 lots from the private collection of their daughter Frieda Hughes had opened on July 9 at Sotheby's in London, and raised more than three times the estimate.

David Jenkins' biography of Indonesia's second and longest ruling president, Soeharto, is a comprehensive and compelling read, with at least two more volumes to follow.

English Heritage, a charity that maintains historic buildings and commemorates famous residents, had updated its website to say her work has been criticized "for its racism, xenophobia and lack of literary merit".

Chef Dean Keddell sets out to help Balinese people in need and finds himself being repaid with an overabundance of kindness. 

The writer’s recently published novel Dial A for Aunties is a refreshing mix of rom-com and murder mystery – and it is coming to Netflix soon.

A newly published book on Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe reveals that a native of modern-day Sumatra had a hand in cementing the Portuguese navigator's place in history.

Eric Carle, author and illustrator of the beloved children's classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died aged 91.